Quotes About Spiritual

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees.

Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God"...

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

What have we Bibles for, ministers and preaching for, if we mean not to furnish ourselves by them with armour for the evil day? In

It is more honour to take one soul alive out of the devil's clutches, than to leave many slain upon the field. Erasmus

What is prayer but the breathing forth of that grace which is breathed into the soul by the Holy Spirit?

Here is the necessity of divine armour, to persevere till we have done all. Wherefore, else, bids he them take this armour for this end, if they could do it without?

Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full, in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts; but

The Christian is a born conqueror, the gates of hell shall not prevail against him.

O how true are poor sinners to the devil's trust!

If all the devil's wits and wiles will not serve him to overcome one single soldier in Christ's camp, much less shall he ever ruin the whole army. These

Conscience is God's sergeant he employs to arrest the sinner.

God brings his grace into the heart by conquest.

Occumenius, is as much as if the apostle had said,[45] 'We wrestle not for small and trivial things, but for heavenly,' yea, for heaven itself, and our adoption, as he goes on.

Though some precious souls, that have closed with Christ, and embraced the gospel, be not at present brought to rest in their own consciences, but continue for a while under some dissatisfactions and troubles in their own spirits; yet even then they have peace of conscience in a threefold respect. In precio, in promisso, in semine—in what purchases it, in the promise, and in the germ.

Every sin thou committest is a new line that the devil draws on thy soul.

this spiritual war of the Christian lies chiefly on the defence, and therefore requires arms most of this kind to wage it.

The Spirit puts forth an act of exsuscitation[4] upon the soul, to stir up his affections.

Must the soul's armour be of God's make? Be exhorted then to look narrowly whether the armour ye wear be the workmanship of God or no. There is abundance of false ware put off now-a-days; little good armour worn by the multitude of professors

It is one thing to have armour in the house, and another thing to have it buckled on; to have grace in the principle, and grace in the act. So that our instruction will be,

Truth cannot itself be bound, nor will it dwell in a soul that lies bound in sin's prison; and therefore when once truth and the soul are agreed, or rather Christ and the soul, who are brought together by 'truth,' then the poor creature may lift up his head with joy, for his redemption and jail-delivery from this spiritual bondage draws nigh; yea, the day is come, the key is in the lock already to let him out.

That prayer is a necessary duty to be performed by the Christian, and used with all other means in his spiritual warfare.

Every soul clad with this armour of God shall stand and persevere; or thus, true grace can never be vanquished.